Dramatic Over Scale Post Modern Plaster Floor Lamp c 1980's
Located in New York, NY
Dramatic oversize ceramic floor lamp of bulbous form with contrasting dark toned, textured glaze at the upper section, which appears to drip down onto the smooth creme colored bottom...
Plaster
Aseptic II Floor Lamp by The Async - Brass & Glass, Post-Modern
Located in Geneve, CH
Aseptic II floor lamp by The Async Dimensions: D 46 x W 60 x W190 cm Materials: brass, glass & resin composite Edition of 10 + 2 A/P All our lamps can be wired according to eac...
Brass
Post Modern Style Frame Floor Lamp Black, Woven Cane and Terrazzo
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Frame lamp stands out for its strong shapes made of Terrazzo stone, with opal glass globes kindly wrapped by a smooth, curved lacquered metal structure. Made to Order and color custo...
Metal
Post Modern 1980s Italian Relco Torchère Tapered Column Floor Lamp - Marble Base
By Relco Milano, Gianfranco Frattini
Located in St. Louis, MO
Post Modern 1980s Italian Relco torchère or floor lamp with frosted glass shade, tapered off white aluminum fluted column on round marble base.
Marble, Aluminum
Italian Post Modern Uplight Halogen Torchiere Floor Lamp att. to Fontana Arte
By Fontana Arte, Richard Meier
Located in New York, NY
Sophisticated Post Modern Italian design halogen uplight, torchiere, floor lamp, attributed to Fontana Arte.
Metal
Vintage Carlo Forcolini Post-Modern Black Floor Lamp for Artemide Italy, 1980s
By Artemide, Carlo Forcolini
Located in St. Louis, MO
1980s Post-modern Carlo Forcolini designed "Nestore Terra" black floor lamp for Artemide with silver spheric counterweight.
Metal
Post Modern Sonneman for Boxland Holland Saucer Floor Lamp c. 1980's
By Sonneman Lighting, Robert Sonneman
Located in New York, NY
Rare Robert Sonneman designed Post Modern, Memphis style saucer form floor lamp, made in the Netherlands, by Boxland Holland circa 1980/90's.
Metal
1980s Post Modern Memphis Period Floor Lamp by Arteluce / Ettore Sottsass
By Arteluce
Located in Chicago, IL
Designed by Perry A. King & Santiago Miranda for Arteluce Memphis Period. Style of Ettore Sottsass
Glass
$840Sale Price|20% Off
Robert Sonnomen for George Kovacs, White Enamel Post Modern Halogen Floor lamp.
By George Kovacs, Robert Sonneman
Located in Chicago, IL
Robert Sonneman for Kovacs Lighting Torchiere floor lamp. White enamel over metal, halogen lighting element with glass cover. Rectangular shaped stem with additional support.
Metal, Enamel
$1,440Sale Price|40% Off
Post Modern Italian Floor Lamp with Hollywood Style Barn Doors
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Post-Modern enameled steel Italian floor lamp with Barn doors and iron base.
Steel
Italian Post Modern Black Metal and Sheet Metal Stone Effect Floor Lamp, 1980s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian post modern black metal and sheet metal stone effect painted, triangular base floor lamp, 1980s.
Metal
Italian Three Post/Arm Floor Lamp
Located in Kansas City, MO
Striking Italian three shade floor lamp. Red, yellow, and black shades.
Brass, Steel
Post Modern Black Grip Floor Lamp By Achille Castiglioni For Flos, Italy 1980s
By Achille Castiglioni
Located in Norwich, England
Post Modern "Grip" floor lamp by Italian architect and designer Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002) for Flos.
Metal, Brass
$672Sale Price|43% Off
Vintage 1980's Post Modern Wood Floor Lamp with Sculptural Design
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This exquisite vintage floor lamp is a striking example of sculptural craftsmanship, defined by its beautifully hand-carved twisted wood column. The dynamic spiral pattern wraps cont...
Wood
Italian Post Modern Black Metal Stem and White Metal Lampshade Floor Lamp, 1980s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian post modern black metal stem and white metal lampshade floor lamp, 1980s Floor lamp with black stem and white metal dome lampshade with black border and stem that protrudes f...
Metal
Post Modern Boyd Lighting Company Chrome Floor Lamp Deco Torchiere
By Boyd Lighting
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, an art deco moderne chrome torchiere floor lamp by Boyd Lighting Company. Maker stamped. Dimensions: 70.25" H x 16" diameter Delivery within 200 miles from...
Chrome
Post Modern Cadmo Floor Lamp by Karim Rashid for Artemide c 2000/2010
By Karim Rashid, Artemide
Located in New York, NY
Stunning Postmodern floor lamp designed by noted architect Karim Rashid for Artemide, circa 2000/2020. This lamp features a bulb at the top. and one within the vertical standard ( h...
Steel
Post-Modern Sculptural Mood Lighting Tower Blue Glass Floor Lamp by Curvet USA
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In the Post-Modern Memphis style, made iconic by luminaries such as Ettore Sottsass, for your consideration is a signed Curvet USA sculptural floor lamp.
Steel
Post-Modern Metal Floor Lamp with Blue Bird-Shaped Shade by Bjart Rhenen
Located in Doornspijk, NL
Charming floor lamp made by Dutch design firm Bjart Rhenen. The shade made of aluminium has the shape of a bird. This lamp dates back to the 1980's. Bjart Rhenen no longer exists ...
Steel
Pair of Post Modern Columnar Plaster Floor Lamps by Bob Graham Circa 1980s
Located in Peabody, MA
A pair of sculptural plaster floor lamps by Bob Graham ca. 1980s. These are of adjustable height, with the original black lacquer shades. 64.5" high as shown, to top of shade. Bas...
Plaster
Post Modern Metal Floor Lamp by Glen Oliver Löw and Antonio Citterio, 1990s
By Antonio Citterio, Glen Oliver Löw
Located in Rīga, LV
Vintage industrial “Quadra BID” office lamp designed by Glen Oliver Löw and Antonio Citterio in 1994 for Vitra Ad-Hoc office system, lamp produced by Ansorg. Minimalist solid design ...
Metal
Handcrafted Sculptural Solid Wood Floor Lamp Post-Modern Light STRATA Flowlight
By Flowlight Design, Karson Wu
Located in Lawrenceville, GA
This is a Made to Order item! The solid wood is assembled in geometric forms, with hand-sanded surfaces revealing natural grain; variations in depth lend a quiet sense of age and ti...
Wood
Post Modern Style Frame Floor Lamp Salmon Rose, Woven Cane and Terrazzo by UTU
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Powder Coated in Salmon Pink , Frame floor lamp's finish is smooth and elegant in it Post Modern Style.
Metal
Mid-Century Post Modern Black with Red Torchiere Neon Floor Lamp by Rudi Stern
By Rudi Stern
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A tall post modern neon floor lamp made by Rudi Stern circa 1970's.
Steel
Post Modern Style Frame Floor Lamp Cobalt Blue, Woven Cane and Terrazzo by UTU
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Powder coated in Cobalt Blue, the Frame Floor lamp, with its Post Modern Style, is elegant and fresh.
Metal
Post Modern Style Frame Floor Lamp Copper Color, Woven Cane and Terrazzo by UTU
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Powder coated in Cobalt Blue, the Frame Floor lamp, with its Post Modern Style, is elegant and fresh.
Metal
Mid Century Hollywood Regency Post Modern Pink or Peach Spiral Floor Lamp
By Michael Taylor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
We currently have a pair of these available and they are priced each. A stylish and chic spiral floor lamp in the style of Michael Taylor, circa 1970s. It features very heavy and sol...
Plaster
Large Mid Century Italian Arco / Arc Chrome & Marble Floor Lamp- Post modern
By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Large Mid Century Italian Arco / Arc Chrome & Marble Floor Lamp Vintage Arco Floor Lamp Attributed to Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Flos, Italy, 1960s 8ft An iconic ...
Carrara Marble, Chrome
Studio Art Glass Post Modern Sculpture Floor Lamp Signed and Dated
By Memphis Group
Located in Miami, FL
This is very tall art glass floor lamp, signed and dated 1991. The designed is graphic and colorful. Very much in the style of Memphis. Quality is extraordinary. Signature illegible.
Art Glass
Mid-Century Post Modern Sculptural Versatile Floor Lamp Reading or a Torchère
By Relco Milano
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fantastic simple yet so versatile and fits into a trianglular role of a reading lamp and a Torchère or just an accent lighting option. Painted steel with a heavy steel plate base al...
Steel
A POST-MODERN Minimal FLOOR LAMP by RICO & ROSEMARIE BALTENSWEILER, Swiss 1970
By Rosemarie & Rico Baltensweiler
Located in PARIS, FR
A halogen floor lamp type "Eclisse" or "Eclipse", inspired by the space or the moon (just like some of the models from the same period by Gino Sarfatti for ex.), Post-Modern, with a ...
Metal
Post Modern Space Age Adjustable Chrome Floor Lamp c. 1960/70's
By Alberto Reggianini, Sonneman Lighting
Located in New York, NY
Cool adjustable chrome floor, or reading lamp, having a large bowl form shade which tilts within the U shaped holder, which in turn can be raised and lowered on the vertical center ...
Chrome
Italian Modern Tessellated Marble Floor Lamp
By Sciolari Lighting, Ettore Sottsass, Stilnovo, Artemide, Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Houston, TX
Italian Modern Tessellated Marble Floor Lamp. Our sculptural floor lamp is beautifully designed with two Edison sockets. Great Italian modern design!
Marble
80s Vintage Hivo Van Teal Post Modern Art Deco Torchiere Lucite Floor Lamp
By Hivo Van Teal
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
80s Vintage Hivo Van Teal Post Modern Art Deco Torchiere Lucite Floor Lamp Stunning, high end Hivo Van Teal, designer Art Decoj Torchiere Floor Lamp Van Teal's design studios are...
Metal
A POST-MODERN MODERNIST Metal & Marble FLOOR LAMP Gino SARFATTI Style Italy 1970
Located in PARIS, FR
A rare minimalist floor lamp, with a cylindrical base in white Carrare massive marble, with a vertical metallic axis displaced on diagonal at the bottom, with a black lacquered metal...
Marble, Metal
$955Sale Price|20% Off
Il Personaggi Table Lamp by Enrico Tronconi, 1972
By Tronconi
Located in Lisboa, PT
This Post Modern floor lamp reminds of a contemporary skyscraper.The acrylic structure with striped cut outs creates an interesting play of light and shadow when switched on.
Plastic, Acrylic
Charles Eames Helena Wall Lamp by Cassina, Aluminum, Post-Modern
By Cassina, Charles Eames
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Charles Eames Helena Black Wall Lamp by Cassina HARMONIOUS INTERPLAY OF LIGHT AND SHADOW A wall lamp designed by Charles Eames to illuminate the interior of the St. Mary church in ...
Aluminum
Brushed Stainless Steel Floor Lamp By Pierre Cardin For Laurel
By Laurel Lamp Company, Pierre Cardin
Located in Houston, TX
Brushed Stainless Steel Floor Lamp By Pierre Cardin For Laurel. Offered is a classic brushed stainless steel floor lamp or reading lam with brass and copper acccents designed by Pier...
Brass, Copper, Stainless Steel
FLOS Spun Light Floor Lamps by Sebastian Wrong / post modernism , ITALY
By Flos, Sebastian Wrong
Located in Buffalo, NY
Designed by Sebastian Wrong in 2003, the Spun Light-F floor lamp reflects the best of modern manufacturing technology combined with elegance, craftsmanship, and dynamic fluid aesthet...
Aluminum, Steel
Unique Postmodern Floor Lamp by Hans Hollein for the Central Bank Austria
By Hans Hollein, Woka Lamps
Located in Vienna, AT
This lamp is unique and was designed by Hollein as pension gift for Dr. Karl Vak (he also was instrumental in the execution). Dr. Vak was longtime CEO of Vienna’s central bank, and a...
Marble, Chrome
Targetti cream floor lamp
By Targetti Sankey
Located in Athens, Attiki
Beautiful, post-modern, cream coloured torch floor lamp by Targetti
Metal
Mid-Century Modern Architectural Glass Floor Lamp by Max Buguara
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous and elegant floor lamp designed by Max Buguara. Glass shaft connecting brass elements on a unique style. Some wear to the brass. In excellent vintage condition with minimal ...
Brass
Ron Rezek Mid-Century Modern Casella , 1970's Floor Lamp
By Casella
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Architectural floor lamp by Casella Lighting, San Francisco, featuring a semicylindrical perforated shade that swivels on a minimalist aluminum frame with weighted base. Design has c...
Aluminum, Steel
Italian modern directional white metal and plastic floor lamp, 1980s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern directional white metal and plastic floor lamp, 1980s. Adjustable floor lamp, with metal and plastic structure with four different inclinations of the upper part of th...
Metal
White Post-Modern Torchier by JD Aznar
Located in Palm Springs, CA
1980’s White Italian Post-Modern torchiere floor lamp by JD Aznar. In beautiful original condition.
Metal
Italian Modern Metal Structure and Magenta Conical Diffuser Floor Lamp, 1980s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian post modern black metal structure and magenta conical diffuser floor lamp, 1980s Floor lamp with rectangular base in black metal, double stem with square section, also in bla...
Metal
Tall Post Modern Italian Torchiere Uplight & Accent Light
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous post modern Torchiere from Italy. Ribbed steel post with a double light, top light for an Uplight and a second light angled to reflect the light into the room. Floor switch ...
Steel
Postmodern Iron Torchiere Floor Lamp
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Great period Post Modern Torchiere floor lamp. Textured iron frame set atop a travertine base.
Travertine, Iron
$14,438 / item
Grun’ Floor Lamp by Faina
By Victoria Yakusha
Located in Geneve, CH
Grun’ Floor Lamp by Faina Limited Edition of 48 Dimensions: W 77 x D 43 x H 110 cm Material: Ztista, glass blowing. The Grun’ lamp is handcrafted, combining the signature eco-consci...
Blown Glass
$2,354 / item
Palm Floor Lamp by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Palm Floor Lamp by Marioni Dimensions: W 28 x D 28 x H 121 cm. Materials: ceramic 7 decorative elements and satin glass globe dia.20 cm Product code: 02966GG The Palm floor lamp pl...
Ceramic, Satin
$825Sale Price|20% Off
Dutch Modern Yellow Cone Floor Lamp Black Cast Iron Base Adjustable 1980s
Located in Lisboa, PT
Playful yet refined, this Dutch floor lamp from the 1980s brings bold primary color and strong geometry into a functional design. The piece features a vivid yellow lacquered metal st...
Metal, Iron
Cressida Bell - 'Bamboo' Floor Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Hand-painted standing floor Lamp with matching shade wooden body adorned with green, and black. Cressida Bell is a British designer specialising in textiles and interiors. From her...
Wood, Paint
Vintage italian floor lamp, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Vintage versatile floor lamp made in italy in the 1980s. You can bend the lamp to the front or backwards. its a very cool timeless design by an unknown designer. 1980s - Italy He...
Metal
Italian Modern Colored Steel Callimaco Floor Lamp by Sottsass for Artemide 1980s
By Ettore Sottsass, Artemide
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian grey, red and yellow steel Callimaco floor lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide, 1982. Callimaco model floor lamp with conical base in dark gray painted steel, yellow cylind...
Steel
$12,096 / item
Floor Lamp by Olivia Cognet
By Olivia Cognet
Located in Geneve, CH
Floor Lamp by Olivia Cognet Dimensions: Base: D 25 cm, Shade : D 50 x H 150 cm Materials: Ceramic. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2016, French artist and designer Olivia Cognet has...
Ceramic
Vladimir Kagan Stalagmite Large Floor Lamp Modern Brass Bubble Light, 1970s, USA
By Vladimir Kagan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An exceptional and unique Vladimir Kagan (American, 1927-2016) Stalagmite floor lamp. Designed and created by Vladimir Kagan Designs, Inc, USA. This functional floor lamp is circa 19...
Brass
$1,559 / item
Bohemian 72 Floor Lamp, Rattan
By Gabriella Crespi, Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
GUBI's Bohemian floor lamp is a perfect example of designer Gabriella Crespi’s desire to create furniture that seamlessly moves from indoor to outdoor spaces. Made from rattan, the l...
Rattan
Postmodern design was a short-lived movement that manifested itself chiefly in Italy and the United States in the early 1980s. The characteristics of vintage postmodern furniture and other postmodern objects and decor for the home included loud-patterned, usually plastic surfaces; strange proportions, vibrant colors and weird angles; and a vague-at-best relationship between form and function.
ORIGINS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
VINTAGE POSTMODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Critics derided postmodern design as a grandstanding bid for attention and nothing of consequence. Decades later, the fact that postmodernism still has the power to provoke thoughts, along with other reactions, proves they were not entirely correct.
Postmodern design began as an architectural critique. Starting in the 1960s, a small cadre of mainly American architects began to argue that modernism, once high-minded and even noble in its goals, had become stale, stagnant and blandly corporate. Later, in Milan, a cohort of creators led by Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini — a onetime mentor to Sottsass and a key figure in the Italian Radical movement — brought the discussion to bear on design.
Sottsass, an industrial designer, philosopher and provocateur, gathered a core group of young designers into a collective in 1980 they called Memphis. Members of the Memphis Group, which would come to include Martine Bedin, Michael Graves, Marco Zanini, Shiro Kuramata, Michele de Lucchi and Matteo Thun, saw design as a means of communication, and they wanted it to shout. That it did: The first Memphis collection appeared in 1981 in Milan and broke all the modernist taboos, embracing irony, kitsch, wild ornamentation and bad taste.
Memphis works remain icons of postmodernism: the Sottsass Casablanca bookcase, with its leopard-print plastic veneer; de Lucchi’s First chair, which has been described as having the look of an electronics component; Martine Bedin’s Super lamp: a pull-toy puppy on a power-cord leash. Even though it preceded the Memphis Group’s formal launch, Sottsass’s iconic Ultrafragola mirror — in its conspicuously curved plastic shell with radical pops of pink neon — proves striking in any space and embodies many of the collective’s postmodern ideals.
After the initial Memphis show caused an uproar, the postmodern movement within furniture and interior design quickly took off in America. (Memphis fell out of fashion when the Reagan era gave way to cool 1990’s minimalism.) The architect Robert Venturi had by then already begun a series of plywood chairs for Knoll Inc., with beefy, exaggerated silhouettes of traditional styles such as Queen Anne and Chippendale. In 1982, the new firm Swid Powell enlisted a group of top American architects, including Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Stanley Tigerman and Venturi to create postmodern tableware in silver, ceramic and glass.
On 1stDibs, the vintage postmodern furniture collection includes chairs, coffee tables, sofas, decorative objects, table lamps and more.
The modern floor lamp is an evolution of torchères — tall floor candelabras that originated in France as a revolutionary development in lighting homes toward the end of the 17th century. Owing to the advent of electricity and the introduction of new materials as a part of lighting design, floor lamps have taken on new forms and configurations over the years.
In the early 1920s, Art Deco lighting artisans worked with dark woods and modern metals, introducing unique designs that still inspire the look of modern floor lamps developed by contemporary firms such as Luxxu.
Popular mid-century floor lamps include everything from the enchanting fixtures by the Italian lighting artisans at Stilnovo to the distinctly functional Grasshopper floor lamp created by Scandinavian design pioneer Greta Magnusson-Grossman to the Paracarro floor lamp by the Venetian master glass workers at Mazzega. Among the more celebrated names in mid-century lighting design are Milanese innovators Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, who, along with their eldest brother, Livio, worked for their own firm as architects and designers. While Livio departed the practice in 1952, Achille and Pier Giacomo would go on to design the Arco floor lamp, the Toio floor lamp and more for legendary lighting brands such as FLOS.
Today’s upscale interiors frequently integrate the otherworldly custom lighting solutions created by a wealth of contemporary firms and designers such as Spain’s Masquespacio, whose Wink floor lamps integrate gold as well as fabric fringes.
Visual artists and industrial designers have a penchant for floor lamps, possibly because they’re so often a clever marriage of design and the functions of lighting. A good floor lamp can change the mood of any room while adding a touch of elegance to your entire space. Find yours now on 1stDibs.